[Agent 86]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:03:27 -0400, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Craig Ruggels wrote:
Have a small studio, but am tired of always switching cables. Rane or
will the Behringer work well., needs to be clean, no noise?

My personal feeling is that if you want a patchbay that actually works,
spend the money and get a long frame type. The cheapie Ranes will work
for a while, but they won't be reliable with heavy use. --scott

What the cheapie patch bays are really good for is when you are first
adding a patch bay to your set up. If you haven't used a patch bay before,
then you have some experimenting to do before you can really define your
workflow. During that time, it's way better to have jacks on the back
instead of solder lugs.

When the jacks wear out on the cheapie, if you haven't changed anything on
the back panel in six months, it's time for a real patch bay. If you
rewired your entire setup last week, buy another cheapie.